The Free Play Arcade franchise continues to grow this year. It has plans for two new locations: one in downtown Denton, the other a new arcade concept in Oak Cliff. The retro video game arcade chain has announced that its third arcade and first growler bar will open in spring…
Thu 2/8Here we have two of the best rappers in the world, two rappers who grew up together, two rappers who sit stylistically at different poles. There’s the stark, heady and cold philosophizing of Vince Staples set against Tyler, the Creator’s warm, technicolor revelry. Staples’ tracks balance hardline street values…
Tue 2/6 Daniel H. Pink has all the answers. Need to understand what drives you? He wrote a book about that. Want to harness your creativity and potential for professional success and personal fulfillment? He wrote a book about that, too. Questioning whether the time is right for you to…
Performing requires confidence and focus. And performing improvisational comedy requires extra of both because the players make up the dialogue, movements and settings on the spot based on their fellow players’ reactions. It’s basically an ordinary social interaction, but onstage. A simple conversation with a complete stranger or a close…
Dallas’ comedy community is rallying around comedian Larry Campbell, whose family lost everything in a four-alarm apartment building fire on Jan. 25. “I’m just really overwhelmed by everyone’s kindness and support,” Campbell tells the Observer over Facebook Messenger. “I knew I wasn’t a scumbag, but I had no idea that many comics…
During a first reading of proposed ordinance amendments last week, the Arlington City Council voted unanimously to ban vehicles from being parked on Arlington streets for longer than 24 hours. If the amendments pass, all people, including Arlington residents, parked in a street or alley longer than that could get…
… While the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset — it opens with a group of birds inspirationally singing, “You’re only as small as your dreams,” before they get abruptly knocked out of the sky — it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down …
Cupid’s day is nearing quickly. Its challenge is finding something to do that’s not totally cliché. Candlelit dinners? Been there. Rose petals? Already sprinkled ’em. We’ve rounded up eight Valentine’s Day activities for you to enjoy morning, noon and night. These are fun whether your Facebook status is single, in…
Weddings can be stressful, money-sucking pains in the ass, but Deep Ellum’s BrainDead Brewing has a solution. If you and your future spouse are willing to go without some of the usual luxuries associated with weddings, you can get legally married at the Main Street brewpub between noon and 10…
Even compared to the grandeur and rapture that normally accompanies well-executed symphonies inside the Meyerson Symphony Center, Friday night felt exceptional. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s program was divided into two portions — one a contemporary work, Philip Glass’ Double Concerto for Two Pianos, and the other a towering classic, Anton…
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. God forgives man and gives us Jeff Goldblum. Man creates dinosaurs for a movie starring Jeff Goldblum. Jeff Goldblum appears at the Fan Expo in April. The star of such classic films as Jurassic Park, The Fly, Independence…
A Dallas couple is showing its love for Deep Ellum through their free artwork. Painter and Lash Loft owner Preston Pannek and his girlfriend Adrienne Casey have started the 10 Mural Project through their company, House of Pannek. “We are starting off by donating 10 free murals to Deep Ellum…
Ash Studios went to court in December to contest a citation issued to proprietor Fred Villanueva in March 2017 for allowing Upstart Productions to host a stage play on the premises of his live-work complex in Fair Park. The fire marshal fined Villanueva $700 for not having a certificate of…
Fri 2/2Oh, God, I need this show: Uptown Players’ staging of A Chorus Line at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. Marvin Hamlisch wrote the music for lyrics by Edward Kleban. Direction and choreography are by Jeremy Dumont, whose…
I’m Time’s Up-invigorated and ready to BURN IT ALL DOWN, so please take all my recommendations with a grain of salt, because if it stars a white man, I’d like to see it in the garbage can
There are some honors that only a handful of local news anchors receive in their careers. A few examples: getting to stick the new kid with the live storm report when you’ve had one too many pops from the newsroom bar; scoring the front table at the local Emmy Awards dinner,…
The thrills will officially begin at Six Flags Over Texas on Feb. 24, when the Arlington amusement park opens for its 2018 season, but its insane new attraction will not debut until later this spring. That’s because Harley Quinn Spinsanity, which is geared to flip and spin park attendees at…
Great News has a screwball charm and a flair for rapid-fire jokes, built on a premise that amusingly literalizes the classic sitcom concept of coworkers as family
Prepare to be “swept away” by the Dallas Opera’s new season. That’s the theme the opera is rolling with for its 2018-19 season, which will be “filled with captivating stories and unsurpassed music performed by some of the world’s greatest opera stars,” says Kern Wildenthal, interim general director and CEO. Last week,…
Thu 2/1 Tennis has a knack for making the old new again. When the husband and wife duo of Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore burst onto the music scene in 2011, they instantly became the darlings of the blogosphere and college radio with their dreamy indie-pop tunes and retro aesthetics…
A year ago, President Donald Trump implemented Executive Order 13769, which temporarily banned individuals from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States and stopped refugee admission for 120 days. Now, a nonprofit Dallas book publisher is preparing to release an anthology of fiction celebrating those countries. Banthology: Stories from…
Members of the North Texas Dream Team and the Democratic Socialists of America have joined forces to art bomb the Dallas Museum of Art and encourage visitors to educate themselves about the DREAM Act. The group of “artivists” has been projecting the slogan “Clean DREAM Act Now” on the exterior…
